German Fireball’s 15 Minutes Of Fame

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One …read more

The “Tin Blimp” Was A Neither Tin Nor A Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story

After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more

Ask Hackaday: What Will An LLM Be Good For In The Plateau Of Productivity?

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s mainframes to the machines of today. She …read more

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re …read more

Hackaday Links: March 8, 2026

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to the punch by dropping the 1 GHz Athlon …read more

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How I 3D Printed My Own Lego-Compatible Train Bridges

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By Lewin Day | March 16, 2026

Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its building block sets with motors and plastic rails to create …read more
LEGO Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe Without Electronics

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By Lewin Day | March 16, 2026

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of the game made it possible for [Joost van …read more
Ask Hackaday: Wired Or Wireless Headphones?

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By Al Williams | March 16, 2026

They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, …read more
The IPV4 We Didn’t Get

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By Al Williams | March 16, 2026

If you have ever read science fiction, you’ve probably seen “alternate history” stories. You know, where Europeans didn’t discover the New World until the 19th century, or the ancient Egyptians …read more
ATtiny85 Plays The Chrome Dinosaur Game

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By Lewin Day | March 16, 2026

If you’ve ever had your internet connection drop out while running Chrome, you’ve probably seen a little dinosaur pop up to tell you what’s going on. You might have then …read more
Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard Is Only 11 Years Late

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By Tyler August | March 15, 2026

Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none …read more
Building A Rad Bluetooth Speaker That Didn’t Really Exist

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By Lewin Day | March 15, 2026

[Nick] came across an awesome Bluetooth speaker online, only, there was a problem. It didn’t really exist—it was just a render of a device that would be nice to have. …read more

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